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2 Reported Dead, Teen Wounded in Shooting at Kentucky Community College

Jan. 15, 2013 8:41pm Jason Howerton

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (TheBlaze/AP) — Two people were shot and killed and a teenager wounded Tuesday in the parking lot of an eastern Kentucky community college, authorities said.

A police dispatcher told The Associated Press the shooting happened about 5:30 p.m. at Hazard Community & Technical College in Hazard, Ky. The dispatcher, who was not authorized to release information, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Two people showed up at the Kentucky State Police post in Hazard and said they were involved in the shooting, police spokesman Tony Watts said, but he said he did not know whether they were alleged perpetrators or witnesses. State police held the two until Hazard police came and took them into custody, he said.

Conor Duff, the college’s evening coordinator, said the school was on lockdown following the shooting at the campus, 90 miles southeast of Lexington. Police searched the school’s two buildings and determined that no one else was at risk, Duff said.

Classes had resumed Monday at the campus after the holiday break, according to the college’s website, which also posted that there had been an incident and asked students to stay away from the main campus.

The college’s academic programs range from associate’s degrees in arts and sciences to career-focused training in mining technology and heavy-equipment operation.
Earlier on Tuesday, a man shot a school administrator at a St. Louis school before shooting himself. Both men were in surgery Tuesday afternoon at Saint Louis University Hospital. Police Chief Sam Dotson said he was optimistic both would survive, but a hospital spokesman declined to discuss their conditions.

This story is developing and may be updated as new information becomes available.

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stevephoenix
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 3:02am
We must ban whatever weapon was used, this is what we like to do.

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- jhrusky
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:03pm
  What is so unbelievable is that as soon as one major gun event happens, 3 or 4 more within days happen again — almost makes one wonder just what in heck is going on …
  
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Conservative Democrat
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:30am
ERROR on my part……..Hazard is the county and Harlan is the “town”
sorry, I tr to stay s far away as possible now that I got older……..and smarter!

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- ME80
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:23am
  As a lifelong Kentuckian I’ll set the record straight…Harlan, the town, is in Harlan County Kentucky. Hazard is NOT a county, but a town in Perry County Kentucky. Both towns, in southeastern Kentucky, have “rough” histories. Gun violence has long been part of that culture. Back in the day, the coal industry provided good paying jobs, that most people would not want, for a part of the country that lacked in education. Today that’s not the case. That part of Kentucky is now consumed by prescription and illegal drugs. Many doctors have been indicted for bogus scripts written for oxycotin and other legal meds. Other people are brewing their batches of crystal meth. Best not “go up a hollar” unless you’ve been invited and even then you best be packin’.
  
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- Nevertakecandyfromsocialists
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:40am
  Harlan is my hometown. Worst crime area in KY? Not by a long shot, It was a very safe place to grow up with a wonderful since of community where you knew everyone. However, I would agree with ME80, there are a few hollers where you would not be welcome. (As well as the rest of that very depressing assessment, EPA regulations are killing the coal industry there and they are so geographically isolated no other industry could be located there.) By the way, Lexington news is reporting this as a domestice issue with a 16 year old girl hospitalized and the suspect is in custody.
  
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Conservative Democrat
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:27am
Ever hear of a town called Harlan it is in Hazard county Kentucky, I have been there numerous times and would rather have my teeth (ok TOOTH) drilled with no pain meds then ever go there again. Has to be the worst crime area in Kentucky!
Ever wonder why Elmore Lenorad (Justified), wrote his books about Harlan and Hazard!
I think they have won “worst humans on the face of the planet” 30 years running!
Seriousy I have seen the CC there it was just next to the jail (convienetly)!

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:57pm
Killing people happens to be caused by a failure of the soul and conscience, not the ownership of a gun. Obama is for abortion, letting aborted babies that lived out of the womb be put to die in some lenin closet in the hospital. and personally picks out targets with or without children present in Afghanistan to be blown away by drones.. He is protected by armed secret service people and so is his dinky little family. He has no room counseling people on gun control.

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banjarmon
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:56pm
Any thing that goes bang anywhere in the nation will be jumped on by the media as a horrendous major gun battle with hundreds of shots fired and thousands killed…Fact no longer govern the news!!!

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catty
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:41pm
Every day you guys type in the same responses.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:56pm
  gun free zones are ……..targets
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:57pm
  gang related violence?
  
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- Jarhead 88
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 8:30am
  CATTY – ………and everyday, you are still an ignorant sheep.
  
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Walkabout
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:21pm
Young people have a higher unemployment rate than the national average. Young people who flunk pout of school see no future. Sometimes when your kid turns 18 your job is not done. You have to pick them up out of the dirt dust them off give them a pep talk, hug them, kick them in the a$$ & send them out again.
They got to have a plan. they have to have a plan in case of reversal of fortune.

I bet the shooting at the St Louis business school the young man blames the school for his misfortune. What he did he could have done with a knife, a car or some other means.

The media hyped this Kentucky story so fast that we will have 10 updates before morning & only then might we know why.

Give motive & I will give you plan to fix the base problem

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GoodStuff
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:09pm
Two dead in a shooting, and this is national news? Eh Blaze?

3,000 babies were murdered today in the womb. Silence from the media.

Why is the Blaze playing these media games?

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revelation2012
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:40pm
there is something really ‘sinister’ about the day after day incidents

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Metallicat
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:27pm
Are the people murdered by guns now the only ones that deserve justice in America? It seems our media is sending the message that murder is OK as long as its not done with a gun. I remember the news story in my area that prompted me to buy a handgun. It was a home invasion,where they found a father and son bound and gagged,beaten to death with a baseball bat. The criminals were under the impression the son was dealing drugs. The father tried to defend himself and his son with the very baseball bat that ended their lives. I doubt having only a 10 round mag would have changed the outcome,when they never found out how many perpetrators there actually were.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:07pm
  Link the story.
  
  If I remember the correctly nevermind used a half shaded face the same as sendthemeteors. It has a dark & brooding look. Either consciously or unconsciously they are using it for psychological warfare.
  
  Hit them back link the story. throw it in their face
  
  P.S. keep you nose extra clean & look into whether you can be an auxiliary policeman or a deputy sheriff. People like meteors will too busy teaching course at college or something to bother with being an auxiliary policeman. Too busy & too important. They’ll make their own bed.
  
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- Oldbutnotsenile
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 10:35am
  Make al the laws you want and the most people who will be affected are innocent people who own guns either for sport or protection. There is no way you can stop criminals, gangs, illegals, etc from purchasing guns illegally. When will Chicago, who have strict gun laws stop all the drive-by or just murder victims in general. Innocent people are being killed there daily by gangs, drug dealers, etc. Our government is working gun control from the wrong angle.
  
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TomFerrari
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:24pm
Dear God!
Hazard is my birthplace. It’s a VERY small coal-mining community in the Appalachian mountains of KY. I still have family there. Calling them now. Will update with any additional information I receive. Pray for the families and the injured teen, and for cooler heads and reason to prevail.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:26pm
  Will do !
  
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:29pm
  UPDATE: from Hazard Herald website:
  Hazard Police Chief, Minor Allen, says, “It’s definitely not an active shooter situation involving the school in any way,” he explained. “It’s something that occurred off campus that just spilled into the parking lot of the school.”
  
  http://hazard-herald.com/pages/full_story/push?article-BREAKING-+Two+dead-+one+injured+in+shooting+at+HCTC%20&id=21419746&instance=top_stories
  
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barber2
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:23pm
My guess is that the Obama MSM team will be targeting ( ouch ) and focusing on any shooting anywhere in America. It’s Agenda Time in Obama II. “Protection ” of the American people from crazed, LONE shooters. Big Daddy and his government troops will protect you. The after guns, it will be conservative media “censorship” for the “protection” of the American people. Then, what ? Ridding the country of opposing political groups ? Again for ” the protection ” of the American people ? Pretty soon the radical Democrats will ” protect” the American people out of all of their individual rights. COLLECTIVIST Big Brother types of governments do that ! Protect the ” individual ? ” No. Big Daddy protects “the people.”

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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:58am
  Mr os Ms BARBER2,
  
  This is what you must now:
  
  Yes, it’s all true. You must head for your bunker immediately. Beans and a wheat grinder await. Be sure to clear your breathing tube. You’ll be safe there. Good thing you planned ahead. Check in again when you surface in six months.
  
  It is so.
  
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- IMAKENOSENSEI
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:00pm
  Gorp.
  
  Fnark.
  
  Schmeggle.
  
  It is so.
  
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valiant1776
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:13pm
This not a gun problem. This a cultural and moral problem, wherein society, not Government, needs reform. There were more guns in the hands of citizens during the revolution and afterwards then there is now, and there wasn’t blood spilling on the streets. In fact, there was very little or no crime in most neighborhoods. Even in the mid 1900′s students would go to school with their .22 rifles or shotguns in their pickup trucks, and people would not shoot each other heads off just for the heck of it. For the most part, a respect for life and liberty, and a knowledge of good and bad, was instilled from a very young age, and all through school. Obviously, our nation is facing a moral and religious crisis, not a ‘gun problem’. There’s no such thing as ‘gun violence’. Violence whether by a gun or club is violence none the less.

“A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.”

“For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”

“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”

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- valiant1776
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:20pm
  “Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.”
  
  “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”
  
  “He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.”
  
  “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
  
  “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:31pm
  This IS the 0bama Syndicate ! Started under Carter….Sped up under Clinton until “they” could bring in the 0 to finish us off. Have you ever heard that Monroe County, TN is considered to be the “test case” for planned tyranny? Ever hear of Darren Huff or Walter Fitzpatrick III? This is planned tyranny.
  
  http://www.gulagbound.com/36895/obama-congress-ending-the-usa-to-establish-the-new-police-state-part-1/ by Sher Zieve This is information everyone needs to know, if you don’t already.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:33pm
  Children were taught to respect their parents. Nowadays, TV and school over-ride what parents try to teach their kids. TV portrays parents, especially fathers, as bumbling morons, uninvolved with their children’s lives. Very many shows don’t even show fathers.
  We already know how schools interfere in parenting.
  My kids didn’t watch TV until my oldest was 10. Before that, we watched videos.
  The biggest influence on kid’s behavior are other kids, but only so far. If the child has a good foundation, they won’t go against their parent’s wishes.
  That’s my two cents, for what it is worth.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:44pm
  @Anon I totally agree. I especially agree with the statement, “The biggest influence on kid’s behavior are other kids, but only so far”. The forced disconnect between the relationship of child and parent in today’s society is one of the biggest problems we face today. It is a complete usurpation of responsibilities and duties brought on by a Marxist propagandist media, radical entertainment industry culture, and socialist liberal (not limited) Government.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:08pm
so how many Americans were murdered by other means today in America? a murdered person is still dead despite the methods used. Would the MSM ever restrict their reporting of murders to only fist,knives,cars,baseball bats? How many abortions were performed in America today? would the MSM ever focus their reporting to this statistic?

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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:59am
  This is what you must know<
  
  Hand grenades for everybody! The never killed anyone. And flame throwers! Bazookas!
  
  It is so.
  
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Mossy_pump
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:08pm
Yeah I bet they used an AR-15 with a 30 round clip or an AK-47 with a drum magazine!! Just had to happen with a so called “assault rifle”!

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- 700P
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:59pm
  Nope. If it did the MSM would already be triumphing the news. Unfortunately now even legitimate self defense will be reported like its another Sandy Hook. I wonder how many shootings will be the result of the MSM glorifying this abhorrent behavior to antisocial psychopaths who want their 15 minutes of fame. The MSM and Hollywood are far more guilty than law abiding gun owners.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:00am
  Like the AR-15 shown on video being taken from the trunk of Lanza’s car in the parking lot, after the shooting was over?
  
  See, guns don’t only kill people ….they run and hide too!
  
  To your point: Aurora; Ar-15….Newtown; AR-15, Calackamas; AR-15 (stopped by armed citizen) Taft, CA; shotgun, now they need to have a few with high cap hand guns (other than the Holmes shooting, that happened to long ago and nobody remembers more than a few weeks and then they go back to watchin’ the TaaVee.)
  Yes, we will now see mass shootings involving high capacity handguns to complete the list.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:48pm
Liars! Gun free zone, so no shooting could have occured because they are gun free zones and we all know that in gun free zones there can be no guns in a gun free zone so no one could possibly be shot with a gun in a gun free zone because no one would ever bring a gun onto a place that is a gun free zone.

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- Live_Free_orDie
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:02pm
  Well it’s because we didn’t have enough laws. SOooo ya know…We need another gun free zone law.
  
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- texaswoman
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:12pm
  And there is NO gun crime in Chicago because we all know they have strict gun laws!
  
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PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:47pm
How many are shot or stabbed, etc. in NYC or Chicago or other major cities daily?
This just isn’t newsworthy & to exploit each and
every incident. only makes the argument for gun control look more believable.
CONTEXT please….

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KingCanon
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:47pm
Community College…. WOW!

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hatchetjob
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:47pm
Finally this shows up at the Blaze, better late than never I suppose.

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- qpwillie
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:09pm
  @hatchetjob
  It happened this afternoon and very few facts are known. Of course I’m sure MSNBC jumped on it before they were even sure there was a shooting. ….for obvious reasons.
  
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